13 posts from November 2013

11/27/2013

ESD’s Daniel Coleman and Daniel Feldman explored acceleration of a radiation code used in creating simulated satellite observations of predicted climate-change scenarios, achieving a speedup of 25 times over present speeds.

A talk between Curt Oldenburg and the Korean Consul General led to an invitation to the Korea Day celebration San Francisco—and then to a talk (captured on video) at the Korean CleanTech Conference last week at Berkeley’s Claremont Hotel.

11/21/2013

Using an analytical approach to study solute transport through a fracture in a permeable rock matrix, Jim Houseworth, Daisuke Asahina, and Jens Birkholzer generated a closed-form model that accounts for elusive fracture-matrix transport.

11/19/2013

DoD's Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) has released their solicitation for both Core and SEED proposals. The two have different deadlines (Core: pre-proposal required, deadline of 9-Jan-2014; SEED: no pre-proposal, full proposal deadline 11-March-2014) with distinct Statements of Need (SONs) for both.

11/17/2013

Recognizing that soil evaporation is one of the few ways the land surface returns water to the atmosphere, ESD’s Jinyun Tang and Bill Riley describe the implementation of a new bare-soil evaporation formulation for climate models.

11/08/2013

Janet Jansson recently received an award for her work in soil biology, and presented the Francis E. Clark Distinguished Lectureship on Soil Biology, at a meeting of the Soil Science Society of America in Tampa, Florida.

11/06/2013

ESD’s Bill Collins is one of a number of climate scientists recently active in developing the Community Earth System Model (CESM)—an enhanced model that enables investigations into a wide range of pressing scientific questions.